Steinberg Museum of Art

Steinberg Museum of Art is currently relocating to the lower level of the B. Davis Schwartz Library at LIU Post. We look forward to renovations beginning in April 2017 and will reopen in September 2017. Through March, Steinberg Museum of Art programming will take place in the Hutchins Gallery on the Lower Level of the Library.

Steinberg Museum of Art Museum is the caretaker of Long Island University's Permanent Art Collection. The University began acquiring work in the early 1970s and over the last three decades more than 650 new works have entered the collection through gifts and donations.

Permanent Collection

The Museum’s Permanent Collection, of nearly 5000 works, consists of objects from Ancient Mesopotamia, Greece, and Egypt as well as contemporary paintings, sculptures and photographs. Designed to support a liberal arts education the Collection is quite diverse, but has a focal center of non-western art including Pre-Columbian and African textiles and sculpture and Chinese paintings.

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Education Program

Early Childhood Program

Artistic Explorers

This 1-hour, developmentally appropriate program is designed to introduce young children (K -2nd grade) to the Museum while building both visual and verbal literacy skills. Children will participate in stories and creative activities surrounding a range of artwork, and will experiment with artistic materials as they practice looking, listening and describing.

NOTE: Group size must be limited to 20 students.

Programs for 3rd-12th grade

These 2-hour experiences incorporate age-appropriate discussion, Museum activities, and a hands-on art project. Educators may schedule a tour based on our current exhibitions or may contact the Museum Educator at (516) 299-2782 to structure a customized visit utilizing objects from our collection. Prior to the visit, participating educators receive a Curriculum Resource Guide with information, reproducible handouts, and lesson plans.

Reserve a Visit

The fee for each program is $85 per class. Reservations for visits may be made by returning the attached card or calling 516.299.2782. Reservations are accepted on a first-come, first-served basis.

Payment is due 2 weeks prior to the day of your visit.

Because of space limitations, class size is limited to 30 students.

(20 students for Artistic Explorers and Art of Asia)

NYS learning standards

Museum programs are designed to be interdisciplinary in nature, but are founded in the New York State Learning Standards for the Arts in the Visual Arts discipline. A museum visit provides a starting point for further examination of concepts encompassing math, science, social studies and language arts in the classroom. Our Curriculum Resource Guides, provided to each visiting group, emphasize learning across the curriculum through the visual arts.

Contact Us

For more information about the Education Programs at Steinberg Museum of Art at Hillwood, please contact the Museum Educator at 516.299.2782.

Current Exhibition

The Parana River, Courtesy USGS/EROS Data Center)

February 1 – 23, 2017

Earth From Space

Each day, high above the clouds, dozens of sophisticated imaging satellites circle the earth. These high-tech machines are capable of capturing extraordinary conditions and events that are nearly impossible to document from the surface of the planet. These remarkable images, which reveal the awesome beauty of the planet’s surface through the “eyes” of a space satellite, are on display in a new Smithsonian traveling exhibition.

Featuring 40 beautifully detailed satellite images of the planet from the swirling arms of a massive hurricane and the grid-like pattern of Kansas farmland to the triangular shadows cast by the Great Pyramids and the sinuous channels entering the Arctic Ocean, “Earth From Space” illustrates how satellite imagery is gathered and used to expand mankind’s understanding of life on Earth. It also explores the remote sensing technology used to gather the images and discusses the individual satellites whose images are on display.

“Earth from Space,” developed by the Center for Earth and Planetary Studies at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES), Andrew Johnston, a geographer at the National Air and Space Museum’s Center for Earth and Planetary Studies and author of “Earth from Space” (Firefly Books, 2004), is the exhibition’s curator.

Upcoming Exhibitions

March 1 – 29, 2017

Opening Reception
March 1, 2017
5:00 - 8:00

MFA Exhibition

Contemporary and cutting-edge, each year the Masters of Fine Art candidates present their work in a powerful exhibition. This year is no exception. Works by Arwa Falemban, Samantha Hofsis, Elizabeth Jordan, Susan Kelly, and Isabelle Podrasky will be on view in the Lower Level of the Library. Sculpture, printmaking, and painting will be represented in this exhibition.